F ree M obile A pplications
World Bank
Online Resources and Mobile Apps
New! Doing Business at a Glance
Convenient access to World Bank research and data from your desktop or pocket!
Available for iPhone™.
These web portals and mobile applications allow you to quickly and easily access essential World Bank knowledge on your computer, iPad™, or iPhone™! From authoritative publications to comprehensive data to unique mapping and visualization tools, the World Bank provides a wealth of information on international development at your fingertips.
doingbusiness.org/iphone Doing Business at a Glance draws on the data and information from the World Bank’s popular flagship Doing Business which measures the ease of doing business according to business regulations in 183 economies. Once downloaded, this new free app offers portable access to the most recent rankings and data from 2010 and 2011 – without the need for an Internet connection.
World Bank eLibrary elibrary.worldbank.org
New Platform! New Features! The World Bank eLibrary is the World Bank’s full-text collection of more than 6,000 books, reports, journals and other documents on social and economic development. The new and improved eLibrary platform makes finding World Bank publications easier then ever.
Doing Business at a Glance lets you: n View
the 2010 and 2011 rankings and indicators, along with business reform summaries for each economy n Compare 2010 and 2011 rankings and indicators from economy to economy or economy to region n Sort economies by their “ease of doing business” ranking or any of the other rankings and indicators n Read the complete published Doing Business 2010 and Doing Business 2011 reports
World Bank Results
Going Mobile
Highlights n Search
across all World Bank Publications in one place social bookmarking icons for sharing content pages, abstracts, and search and browse results n Individual user accounts for content alerts, saving, exporting, and sharing n More COUNTER compliant usage statistics including usage by content type n Athens and Shibboleth authentication n e-book purchase options for non-subscribers n One-click
Keep current with what’s going mobile at bit.ly/WBmobile! Stay tuned for more great mobile applications from the World Bank!
Your Pocket Guide to
The World Bank
Going Mobile!
Debuting in early 2011 is a new mobile application about World Bank IDA and IBRD Results, that focuses on the Bank’s impact on poverty reduction and economic development. Another new mobile application providing a pocket guide to the World Bank will be available in 2011. Visit bit.ly/WBmobile to keep current with new app and mobile product releases, including apps for other devices, and link directly to the App stores once new applications are launched.
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For free previews or subscription information, please contact us at onlineresources@worldbank.org
Free
The Complete World Development Report Online wdronline.worldbank.org
New Free Resource! The Complete World Development Report Online is an essential research tool that provides all WDRs since 1978 all in one place.
Highlights n Search
and browse across and within all 30+ WDRs at once n Create, save, and share your own Custom e-books from WDR chapters n Access the critical WDR background papers for reports since 2005 n Quickly save and bookmark content and searches using “My WDR” accounts n Links to the data behind the reports n Quickly see how development thinking has changed over the years
To try this new FREE resource or for more information, contact onlineresources@worldbank.org.